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Cleaver: This cannot be a 'black seat'
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jan 07, 2009 01:50pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Posted: 12:28 PM ET
From CNN's Deirdre Walsh
(CNN) – Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, the new vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Tuesday President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat should not viewed as 'the black seat.'
“Mr. Burris will be seated or won’t be seated on the basis of what happens in a court. I don’t think it’s in the people of Illinois’ interests for us to color that seat," Cleaver told reporters on Capitol Hill. "That seat can’t be the black seat. If that happens we begin to lose the progress we made.”
Those comments appear at odds with views of Rep. Bobby Rush, who has implored Senate Democrats to seat Burris because there are currently no African-American members of the Senate, and called the currently all-white chamber the "the last bastion of plantation politics." |
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